Middle Class Political Economist

I grew up in a middle-class family, the first to go to college full-time and the first to earn a Ph.D. The economic policies of the last 40 years have reduced the middle class's security, and this blog is a small contribution to reversing that.

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Sunday, March 19, 2017

U.S. Has Worst Wealth Inequality of Any Rich Nation, and It's Not Even Close

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I've discussed the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Reports before, an excellent source of data for both wealth and wealth inequality. The mo...

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Basics: Is trade zero-sum between workers in different countries?

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Vox.com had a long, interesting interview with Senator Bernie Sanders covering a large number of political and economic issues. In this pos...

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

U.S. 76, EU 6 UPDATED

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No, it's not a sports score. It's the number of $100 million incentive packages offered in each place beginning in 2010. This is bas...

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Eleven Richest Americans Have All Received Government Subsidies

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A new report by Good Jobs First shows how the very wealthy in America have benefited from government subsidies as one element in building th...

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Friday, October 17, 2014

U.S. Median Wealth Up from 27th to 25th

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Today Credit Suisse released its Global Wealth Databook 2014 to go along with the Global Wealth Report issued Monday. Global wealth hit an...

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Monday, October 13, 2014

Is Piketty wrong on British and Swedish wealth?

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Embarrassingly, I missed this reply by Tim Worstsall to my post "Understanding Piketty, part 1 ." My apologies to Mr. Worstall an...

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Understanding Piketty, part 5 (conclusion)

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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the first book to make a data-driven examination of economic inequality. Based ...

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Understanding Piketty, part 4

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We now come to the exciting conclusion of Thomas Piketty's monumental work, Capital in the Twenty-First Century . This is not an exagger...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Understanding Piketty, part 3

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Part 3 of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the longest section of the book (230 pages out of 577), providing his...

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Kenneth Thomas: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Author of Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (Georgetown University Press, 2000) and Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital (Palgrave, 2011). Available for research, consulting, and expert testimony. All opinions expressed are my own and not my employers'.

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